Briefly Noted

Dr. James F. Dickson III '45, a staff member of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and Program Director of Engineering in Biology and Medicine, is co-editor with Dr. J. H. U. Brown of Future Goals of Engineering in Biologyand Medicine, sponsored by the Institute. Published at $16 by the Academic Press Inc., the book includes papers by 37 participants and discussion by more than 80 engineers, physicians, and scientists on how engineering science may be applied to biomedical research to meet health needs. Possibilities in the years immediately ahead are explored for greater multidisciplinary teamwork and the implication of a deeper impact of engineering on biomedical sciences. The 357-page volume covers a two-day international conference held September 1967 in Washington, D. C.

In Only in Alaska (Doubleday, $5.95), Tay Thomas, the wife of Lowell Thomas Jr. '46, describes what life is like in Anchorage, "America's Last Frontier," a de- scriptive term which she dislikes. She dwells on the delights of Mt. McKinley, the highest in North America, as seen from her livingroom window. So clean is the air that one may at times enjoy a visibility of 110 miles. The family plane opens up fishing grounds, camping spots, and the exploration of Eskimo lands. Alaskans delight in helping one another "in a selfless way seldom found anymore." The future? A period of sweeping change not only economically but also culturally and socially.

Dartmouth readers perusing Poems toLive By by Stanwood Cobb '03 are likely to concentrate on his philosophical and religious ideas. As early as 1906 when he was studying for the Unitarian ministry at Harvard he accepted the Baha'i Faith. His books about this religious sect have been translated into various languages, and his Islamic Contributions to Civilization, translated into Urdu and published in Pakistan, elicited a personal,letter of thanks from King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. The teaching experience at Robert College, Istambul, made possible his first book, The Real Turks. Since then Mr. Cobb has published, in addition to several volumes of verse, 20 books devoted to an exposition of his religious, philosophical, and educational ideas. In early life he was Head of the English Department at St. John's College, Annapolis, and later a member of the Department of English at the Naval Academy. Poems toLive By, published by the Avalon Press, Washington, D. C., places considerable emphasis on the nature of genius, about which Mr. Cobb has written two books, Discovering the Genius Within You and Importanceof Creativeness.

Afterglow, A Half Century of Living Distilled Into a Few Verses by John E. H. Randerson '12, a retired realtor, is dedicated to his wife, Florence Tremper Randerson: "Your beauty, my dear, is of the enduring kind — constantly renewed by inner springs of goodness." The book is also influenced by the Randerson home, Shorecliff, Diamond Point, N. Y. With Lake George as a backdrop, the flavor of the book is suggested by what the author has written over the heavy chestnut mantel of his ledge-stone hearth: "In the Glow of the Family Hearth, All Thoughts Are Noble."